netdev - [PATCH] net: core: rtnetlink: use BUG_ON instead of if condition followed by BUG

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Message-ID: <20171021004311.GA25170@embeddedor.com>
Date:   Fri, 20 Oct 2017 19:43:11 -0500
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@...eddedor.com>
To:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@...eddedor.com>
Subject: [PATCH] net: core: rtnetlink: use BUG_ON instead of if condition
 followed by BUG

Use BUG_ON instead of if condition followed by BUG in do_setlink.

This issue was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@...eddedor.com>
---
This code was tested by compilation only.

 net/core/rtnetlink.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index 04680a5..df8dba9 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -2274,8 +2274,7 @@ static int do_setlink(const struct sk_buff *skb,
 
 			rcu_read_lock();
 
-			if (!(af_ops = rtnl_af_lookup(nla_type(af))))
-				BUG();
+			BUG_ON(!(af_ops = rtnl_af_lookup(nla_type(af))));
 
 			err = af_ops->set_link_af(dev, af);
 			if (err < 0) {
-- 
2.7.4